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SQL views allow you to present data from one or more tables as if it were coming from a single table. Views are virtual tables defined by a SQL SELECT statement. The CREATE VIEW statement is used to define a view, and views can be updated, queried, and dropped like regular tables. Views allow for functions, WHERE clauses, and joins to select and present relevant data without altering the original tables.

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Views

SQL views allow you to present data from one or more tables as if it were coming from a single table. Views are virtual tables defined by a SQL SELECT statement. The CREATE VIEW statement is used to define a view, and views can be updated, queried, and dropped like regular tables. Views allow for functions, WHERE clauses, and joins to select and present relevant data without altering the original tables.

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SQL Views

SQL CREATE VIEW Statement


In SQL, a view is a virtual table based on the result-set of an SQL statement.

A view contains rows and columns, just like a real table. The fields in a view
are fields from one or more real tables in the database.

You can add SQL functions, WHERE, and JOIN statements to a view and
present the data as if the data were coming from one single table.

CREATE VIEW Syntax


CREATE VIEW view_name AS
SELECT column1, column2, ...
FROM table_name
WHERE condition;

Note: A view always shows up-to-date data! The database engine recreates
the data, using the view's SQL statement, every time a user queries a view.

SQL CREATE VIEW Examples


The following SQL creates a view that shows all customers from Brazil:

Example
CREATE VIEW BrazilCustomers AS
SELECT CustomerName, ContactName
FROM Customers
WHERE Country = 'Brazil';

We can query the view above as follows:

Example
SELECT * FROM BrazilCustomers;
The following SQL creates a view that selects every product in the "Products"
table with a price higher than the average price:

Example
CREATE VIEW ProductsAboveAveragePrice AS
SELECT ProductName, Price
FROM Products
WHERE Price > (SELECT AVG(Price) FROM Products);

We can query the view above as follows:

Example
SELECT * FROM ProductsAboveAveragePrice];

Creating View from multiple tables:


In this example we will create a View named MarksView from two tables
StudentDetails and StudentMarks. To create a View from multiple tables we
can simply include multiple tables in the SELECT statement. Query:

CREATE VIEW MarksView AS


SELECT StudentDetails.NAME, StudentDetails.ADDRESS,
StudentMarks.MARKS
FROM StudentDetails, StudentMarks
WHERE StudentDetails.NAME = StudentMarks.NAME;

To display data of View MarksView:


SELECT * FROM MarksView;
SQL Updating a View
A view can be updated with the CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW command.

SQL CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW Syntax


CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW view_name AS
SELECT column1, column2, ...
FROM table_name
WHERE condition;

The following SQL adds the "City" column to the "Brazil Customers" view:

Example
CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW BrazilCustomers AS
SELECT CustomerName, ContactName, City
FROM Customers
WHERE Country = 'Brazil';

SQL Dropping a View


A view is deleted with the DROP VIEW command.

SQL DROP VIEW Syntax


DROP VIEW view_name;

The following SQL drops the "Brazil Customers" view:

Example
DROP VIEW BrazilCustomers;

Deleting a row from a View:


Deleting rows from a view is also as simple as deleting rows from a table. We
can use the DELETE statement of SQL to delete rows from a view. Also
deleting a row from a view first delete the row from the actual table and the
change is then reflected in the view.Syntax:

DELETE FROM view_name

WHERE condition;

view_name:Name of view from where we want to delete rows


condition: Condition to select rows

Example:

In this example we will delete the last row from the view DetailsView which
we just added in the above example of inserting rows.

DELETE FROM DetailsView


WHERE NAME="Sushmita";

If we fetch all the data from DetailsView now as,

SELECT * FROM DetailsView;

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